American Studies: Disasters

Uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath.

Collecting and preserving the memory of the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech.

This collection consists of twenty-six films of San Francisco from before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1897-1916.

An interactive Digital Map with interviews and documents relating to the bombing of Hiroshima.

The stories of victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans organized the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) in 2005 in partnership with many national and Gulf Coast area organizations and individuals.

The Hurricane Sandy Oral History Project aims to preserve the memories of people whose lives have been affected by the storm and its aftermath.

Collects and preserves experiences and responses from individuals and religious communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

These pages contain the stories of the places, the people, and the organizations that battled the American influenza epidemic of 1918-1919.